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University  of  California  •  Berkeley 

Gift  of 

MRS.  WILLIAM  PENN  MOTT  III 

and 
DR.  LEE  MERRIAM  TALBOT 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

BY 

CLARA  COGSWELL  INGHAM 


Published  by 
FRANCES  E.  GOTSHALL,  Portland,  Oregon. 


Copyright  1909 
CLARA  COGSWELL  INGHAM 


This  book  is  sent  forth  to 
place  within  reach  of  children 
pictures  of  bears  that  are  true  to 
Nature  and  drawn  by  a  Master 
hand. 


Price  25  Cents. 


To  All  the  Children 
Of  All   the  Land. 


KANSAS. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS. 

"Mamma,  Mamma,  tell  us  all 
about  Seattle  and  the  fleet." 

"Yes,  my  children,  I  have  a 
good  story  for  you  about  sixteen 
bears. " 

uLive  bears,  Mamma?" 
"Yes,   my    child,  and    I    have 


LOUISIANA. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

their   pictures,  sent   to   you   by  a 
great  man." 

"You  must  have  seen  lots  of 
the  great  man,  Mamma,"  said  the 
sun-kissed  daughter  with  the 
golden  hair. 

"No,  not  much,  my  daughterr 
but  may  see  more.  He  has  asked 
to  take  care  of  you  all  at  the 
Alaskan  Fair.  So  teach  your 
tongue  more  courtesy  if  you  will 

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KENTUCKY. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

have  even  greater  than  Royalty 
for  nursery  maid."  For  she  had 
spoken  sharply  to  baby  sister. 

"But  let  us  get  back  to  the 
story.  There  were  sixteen  bears 
from  Aberdeen, — ." 

"What's  Aberdeen,  Mamma?" 

"Aberdeen,  my  son,  is  the 
place  where  bears  come  from. 
But  if  you  will  listen  as  you  go 

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KEARSARGE. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

through    life   you   will   know    all 
chings." 

First  get  the  pictures  of  the 
bears.  You  see  there  are  sixteen 
and  each  has  his  name  on  a  collar 
around  his  neck.  He  is  named 
for  a  great  battleship  and  is  to  be 
its  mascot. 

This  tiny  one  with  head 
bowed  down  is  Connecticut.  That 
is  a  big  name  for  so  small  a  bear, 

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CONNECTICUT. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

but  he  will  grow  to  it.  First  let 
us  go  back  to  the  bears'  real  baby 
hood.  Now  we  will  close  our 
eyes  and  try  to  see  just  how  they 
lived  when  they  were  with  their 
mothers.  You  must  look  so  far 
beyond  the  streets,  away  past  all 
the  houses  and  all  the  hills,  clear 
back  to  the  very  edge  where  you 
see  the  sky.  There  my  children, 
your  eyes  can  look  no  further, 
but  your  thought  goes  on  and  on 

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ILLINOIS. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

until  it  carries  you  to  the  very 
center  of  the  great  woods,  and 
there  you  find  the  baby  bears, 
happy  before  man  came. 

Now  let  us  look  well  and  see 
what  makes  little  bears  happy. 
First  of  all — they  are  just  like 
little  boys  and  girls —  they  must 
have  a  mamma.  They  must  have 
milk,  and  have  the  dirt  washed 
off  their  faces,  not  with  soap  and 

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THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

water  but  by  their  mother's  great 
red,  rough  tongue,  and  have  their 
hair  combed,  also  by  her  tongue, 
for  they  must  be  clean  and  warm 
or  they  can't  be  well.  And  that 
is  like  children,  too. 

You  might  think  that  a  little 
bear  would  be  lots  harder  to  keep 
clean  than  a  little  boy,  but  he  is 
not  one-tenth  the  trouble.  Little 
bears  play  with  little  brothers  and 

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MISSOURI. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

sisters  and  grow  cross  and  quarrel 
sometimes — that  is  another  thing 
in  which  they  resemble  you. 

Well,  let  us  look  for  little 
Connecticut  in  his  first  home. 
Here  we  find  him  in  a  cave-like 
place  shut  away  from  the  wind 
and  sun.  He  has  such  a  nice 
warm  bed  in  which  to  sleep.  We 
find  him  first  with  his  eyes  shut 
tight  like  a  new  baby  kitten. 

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MA  INK. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

But  he  grows  rapidly  and  soon  is 
large  enough  to  crawl  out  of  the 
den  and  play  in  the  warm  sun 
shine.  He  is  such  a  fine  little 
bear,  so  black  and  soft,  and  oh, 
so  happy  until  man  comes.  The 
trees. look  so  big  and  everything 
just  suits  him,  even  the  little 
stream  of  water  close  by  where  he 
goes  to  fish,  not  with  hook  and 
line,  but  with  his  paw  which  he 

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OHIO. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

slips  quickly  in,  sometimes  catch 
ing  one,  sometimes  not. 

He  has  much  to  learn  at  bear 
school  and  it  is  such  fun  to  learn. 
But  here  comes  man  with  dog  and 
gun.  The  dogs  smell  out  the 
tracks  of  the  helpless  mother, 
they  chase  her  and  force  her  on 
until  she  is  near  her  home,  then 
man  shoots  her  down,  and  seeks 
out  and  finds  her  den  and  drags 

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MINNESOTA. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

Connecticut  and  his  brother  out. 
They  bite  and  scratch  and  cry 
and  whine  but  it  does  not  help 
one  little  bit.  Man  chucks  them 
into  a  sack  and — now  we  must 
bring  our  thoughts  back  out 
through  the  trees  and  past  the 
hills,  clear  to  the  heart  of  bigr 
noisy  Seattle.  And  now  we  can 
see  with  our  eyes  again. 

Here    they  come,  all    sixteen ,. 

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RHODE   ISLAND. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

each  led  by  a  chain  so  none  can 
.escape.  Some  play  along  like 
little  dogs,  others  are  tired  and 
drag  their  feet,  but  they  must 
walk.  For  the  cry  goes  up:— 

uThe  bears  are  coming!  Here 
come  the  bears!"  uHip,  hip,  hur 
rah  and  three  cheers  for  the  bears 
from  Aberdeen,  Hurrah  for  the 
men  from  Aberdeen !"- 

"Look  again    at  the    pictures. 

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THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

See  this  little  bear.  I  mean  this 
one  right  here.  He  was  about 
the  size  of.  Cotton  cat.  You  see 
his  name?  It  is  Vermont.  Well 
he  grew  so  tired  that  the  man 
picked  him  up  and  hung  him 
across  his  arm  just  as  you  do  a 
Teddy  bear.  They  all  pass  by, 
and  we  have  to  go  back  to 
thoughts  if  we  are  to  have  any 
more  of  the  story.  What  we 
think  for  our  little  bear  over  here 

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COTTON  CAT. 


fe 


TEDDY  BKAU. 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

with  his  head  still  down,  Con 
necticut,  is  his  name  you  know, 
we  will  think  for  all  the  other 
bears.  After  his  long  walk  is 
ended,  he  is  taken  in  a  boat  out 
to  the  great  battle  ship  and  there 
lives  for  the  rest  of  his  life. 

There  is  not  much  more  to 
tell.  Mamma  does  not  like  to 
think  of  his  life  chained  down, 
spoiled,  robbed  of  all  that  bears 

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VIRGINIA 


THE  MASCOT  BEARS 

hold  dear.  Now  look  close  at  the 
pictures,  and  we  will  read  the 
names  of  the  bears.  Yon  mnst 
learn  them  all  then  yon  will  know 
the  names  of  all  the  battleships. 
That  is  a  fine  thing  to  know.  It 
is  more  fnn  to  learn  the  names  of 
bears  than  ships." 


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NEW  JERSEY. 


CONNECTICUT. 

VERMONT. 

GEORGIA. 

RHODE  ISLAND. 

MINNESOTA. 

MAINE. 

ALABAMA. 

KEARSARGE. 


KANSAS. 

LOUISIANA. 

NEW  JERSEY. 

VIRGINIA. 

OHIO. 

MISSOURI. 

ILLINOIS. 

KENTUCKY. 


GEORGIA. 


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